3 Bacolod villages named ‘ultrarisk’ areas

BACOLOD CITY: Three barangay (villages) in Bacolod City have identified “ultra-risk” areas for having residents who are confirmed cases of the coronavirus 2019 disease (Covid-19).

Vice Mayor El Cid Familiaran identified on Thursday the barangay ( villages) of Taculing, Villamonte and Singcang- Airport as having Covid- 19- positive case.

Under Executive Order 28, villages are authorized to identify and seal off ultra-risk areas under the enhanced community quarantine.

Ultra-risk areas are neighborhoods or homes in a village with residents who may have already tested positive for Covid- 19, those who have not yet recovered from the disease or those who may have passed away with symptoms, but without confirmatory tests.

Familiaran said village officials and the local police would coordinate ground operations and come up with plans on how to cordon off an identified house.

The house of a 62- year- old female from Barangay Taculing, who died after being exposed to her 40-year-old son, who tested positive with Covid-19, was also sealed off.

The patient tested positive for Covid-19, bringing to six the number of confirmed cases in Bacolod City.

She had a travel history to Manila and had cardiac arrhythmias and diabetes, said Dr. Garce Tan, spokesman of the city Inter- Agency Task Force Against Covid- 19.

Meanwhile, a 42-year-old company driver died on Sunday, the same day he was confined to a hospital in Bacolod City, Tan said.